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Thomas Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC.1324
Overview
This collection contains over 240 mainly incoming manuscript letters addressed to Thomas Evans, a Philadelphia druggist, author, editor, Orthodox Quaker minister of Philadelphia and, in 1833, one the founders of Haverford College. The letters, 1823-1859, contain material on his very active role in the Society of Friends and the problems of religious doctrine before and during the Hicksite and Wilburite schisms within the Quaker faith. The collection also includes papers and legal documents...
Dates:
1704 - 1868; Majority of material found within 1823 - 1859
Foster-Meyers Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Overview
Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates:
1765-2006
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- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Coope, Benjamin, 1765-1845 1
- Coope, Rachel, 1771-1807 1
- Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868 1
- Foster family 1
- Foster, Elizabeth, 1888-1980 1
- Foster, Henry C. (Henry Cope), 1895-1987 1
- Foster, Horace B. (Horace Bragg), 1850-1933 1
- Foster, John Henry, -1926 1
- Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 1
- Foster, Thyra Jane 1
- Friends Boarding School (Barnesville, Ohio) 1
- Gurney, Joseph John, 1788-1847 1
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 1
- Iowa Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. Hickory Grove Quarterly Meeting 1
- Meyers family 1
- Meyers, Bernice L. (Bernice Lydia), 1896-1946 1
- Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 1
- Meyers, Mary W. (Mary Worthington), 1862-1925 1
- Muncy Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends) 1
- Nantucket Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : Orthodox : 1845- 1867 : Nantucket, Mass.) 1
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- Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 1
- Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 1
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